AI models need access to high-quality information to improve and continue being a one-stop shop for information. Publications are now inking licensing deals with AI companies to sell this content. Perplexity's move expands that to include data crawling for AI training and agentic use cases. First published on Aug. 25, 2025 at 1:35 p.m. PT.

Comet Plus, a subscription service that gives Perplexity users access to premium content from a group of publishers and journalists, creates a revenue sharing program.

Perplexity is launching a new revenue-sharing plan for publishers that will pay them every time its AI assistants use an article to answer a question, The Wall Street Journal reports. Perplexity is launching the plan (and partially paying for it) with a new Comet Plus subscription that gives subscribers access "to premium content from a group of trusted publishers and journalists.